John N Gardner Institute for Excellence In Undergraduate Education

Transformation support services - transforming the foundational postsecondary experience focuses on closing performance gaps and improving student success outcomes in ways that move toward eliminating factors such as demographics and zip code as the best predictors of who gets to graduate. The foundational postsecondary experience refers to the critical first two years of college Education and typically involves the accumulation of sixty semester credits toward a degree. Through a process of system redesign, institutions participating in the effort will develop and implement plans over a five-year period to close inequitable performance gaps, enhance teaching and learning practices, and promote student success, completion, and retention.

Course/curriculum redesign: positively transformed teaching, learning and reducing failure rates in lower division and/or developmental Education "gateway" courses through working directly with faculty and staff.

The Institute helps higher Education and related organizations to individually and/or collectively define or redefine Excellence in Undergraduate Education and assists with the application of these definitions to practice and/or policy. These actions support efforts to facilitate innovation in colleges, universities, and the broader systems of which they are a part. The ensuing dynamic educational opportunities will transform the institutions, the people they serve, the places in which they live and work, and the broader societies and economies of which they are a part.

We held a number of conferences that drew in higher educators from campuses all over the united states.

Mini courses and academies: process and discipline-based communities to help faculty, graduate teaching assistants, and adjunct faculty to create and implement a plan to apply and sustain the use of evidence-based pedagogies in their courses.the organization also offers academies that prepare institutional teams to conduct an evidence-based, equity-focused student retention planning process for their institution with a goal of improving retention and using evidence to ensure that race, ethnicity, and family income are no longer the best predictors of retention and student success.

Retention: creating and implementing an analytics-based retention plan for specific cohorts such as first-year students, second-year students of student-athletes.

Academic advising: in partnership with nacada: the global community for academic advising, we provide a comprehensive, standards-based assessment process to promote Excellence in academic advising.